1921 Duluth & St Louis County MN, Van Brunt.pdf - Garon.us

688 DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
In that year the assessed valuation of Fredenberg Township
was $145,818. It has since scarcely changed, being a few hundred
dollars less in 1919. Taxes in 1904 totaled to $2,945.52; in 1919 the
levy was $5,784.98.
Township officials in 1920: R. T. Williams (chairman), J. A.
Roy and Chas. M. Johnson, supervisors ; F. W. Johnson, clerk
O. H. Stuberud, assessor; also treasurer.
Population of the township in 1910 was 115; in 1920 it stood
at only eighty-seven. It is, therefore, only sparcely inhabited, yet
it is a separate school district, being in School District No. 38, which
covers two townships, 52-15 (Fredenberg), and 53-15 (unorganized
territory). Township 53-15 had only twenty-seven inhabitants in
1910 and no population was reported to the 1920 census. There are
four schoolhouses in Fredenberg Township, or there were four a
few years ago, but the school report for 1919-20 school year shows
that in District No. 38 there were two frame schoolhouses, valued
at $5,000, but as only one teacher was employed during that year,
it is presumed that only one schoolhouse was used. The enrollment
was twenty-two; the teacher was paid $86.00 a month and the tax
R. T.
levy for that year was $4,897.64. School board officials were :
Williams, clerk; F. W. Johnson, treasurer; H. P. Stuberud, chairman
of directors.
French.—On Saturday, August 26, 1905, "in
story log building known as the French House,
that certain two-
situate on southwest
quarter of southeast quarter, section twenty-three of township
sixty north, range twenty-one west" was held, by order of the
county commissioners the first town meeting of the newly-erected
Township of French, which the county commissioners were influenced
to form by a petition signed by William French, and a majority of
the freeholders of township 60-21.
The petition, which was presented by and sworn to by William
French, stated that at the time it was circulated among the residents
of the township, there were not in excess of forty voters resident in
the territory for which township powers were sought, under chapter
10, of the Laws of the State of Minnesota, 1894.
The petition was considered and approved by the county commissioners
at their session of August 10, 1905.
French Township assessed valuation in 1905 was $192,774 ; in
1919, it was $64,676. Tax-levy in 1905 was $5,627.74; in 1919 it was
$3,350.62. In 1910, the population was 167; in 1920 it was only
thirty-one.
School District No. 54 embraces only French Township. There
is a schoolhouse, valued at $2,400, and a female teacher is employed at
a salary of $95.00 a month, notwithstanding that the enrollment for
the year 1919-20 was two. The school levy in that year was $905.46,
seemingly an expensive method of teaching two pupils. The school
board officials in that year were : Hattie Fritcher, clerk ; Sarah Portugue,
treasurer; W. H. French, chairman of directors.
The officials of French Township in 1920 were : Veder Fritcher,
chairman of supervisors; O. H. Moon, clerk; Wm. H. French,
assessor; A. W. Klofauda, treasurer.
Gnesen.—The Township of Gnesen was organized in 1879. Its
proximity to Duluth will eventually make its land valuable, although
up to the present, it cannot be said that its advance has been rapid.
In 1879 its assessed valuation was $32,086, which figure by forty
years of development was increased to $183,218, the valuation of the
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